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Using the Teen Health textbooks provided (pages 123-127), unscramble the following words ... Justify how or why each is beneficial to your heart health. ...

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  1. Let’s Get Started! • Choose 3 muscles of your body you think are important. Some examples are shown to the right. • Write what purpose you think they serve. • Rate them in importance from 1 (most important) to 3 (least important). • Be ready to share your answers. • Remember: I should ONLY hear the music!

  2. The Human Heart • What is it? • What does it do? • What are the risk factors for heart disease? • How do we prevent heart disease?

  3. What is it? • The heart is a muscle • Main part of the circulatory system (aka cardiovascular system) • Pumps oxygen & nutrient rich blood to all tissues of the body…brains, bones, skin, internal organs, muscles • Beats from 60 to 100 times per minute, but can go much faster when necessary. It beats about 100,000 times a day, more than 30 million times per year, and about 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime.

  4. Heart Parts • 2 chambers: left & right • Each has atrium (top) and ventricle (bottom) • Chambers serves as the pump (the lungs of the heart) • Left & right pulmonary arteries loop only to the lungs (only 1 pulmonary vein, on left) • Aorta and superior and inferior vena cavas circulate blood to and from rest of the body

  5. The Aorta • Largest artery in the body • Main “plumbing” from heart to body • 3 parts: • Descending • Ascending • Arch

  6. 1.5 million heart attacks a year with 500,000 resulting in death That’s about 1 heart attack every 20 seconds with death about every minute #1 killer in the U.S. Reggie Lewis Boston Celtics 27 years old Died of heart attack on basketball court in 1993 Heart Disease

  7. A Heart Attack

  8. Risk FactorsThose we can control vs. Those we cannot How can we combat these risk factors?

  9. Heart Health Activity – 40 points Station 1 – Webquest (10 points) Follow Mrs. Earby to the library to answer the questions (2 points each) from this section by visiting the following website: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/heart_noSW.html Station 2 – Unscramble & Define (10 points) Using the Teen Health textbooks provided (pages 123-127), unscramble the following words and define them. Next, use them in a sentence stating a fact about the human heart and/or the circulatory system. Each is worth 2 points. Station 3 – Draw & Label (10 Points) Draw the human heart using the model or the diagram display. Label the 8 of the following parts: left & right atriums, left & right ventricles, left & right pulmonary arteries, left pulmonary vein, superior & inferior vena cava, aortic arch, descending aorta Station 4 – Question Creations Using the library books provided, develop your our set of 5 questions and answers about the human heart and/or circulatory system. You can use multiple choice, fill in the blank and short answer questions. You may NOT use true/false questions. You may use an additional sheet of paper if necessary. Each question and answer set is worth 2 points.

  10. The Human Heart

  11. PERSONAL APPLICATION • Think about activities you could do or changes you might make to improve or maintain your heart health. • Write 1 thing you can do or change: -on your own -with a friend -with your family • Justify how or why each is beneficial to your heart health.

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